For the second year in a row, a bill has died in the lower chamber’s committee system that would’ve allowed Tennesseans who don’t have criminal records to legally carry guns in public without first having to obtain government-issued permits. On what appeared to be a narrow vote, House Civil Justice Subcommittee Chairman Jim Coley, a Republican from Bartlett, declared that a so-called “open carry” measure didn’t win enough support to move along the process for further discussion. Another term used by gun-rights enthusiasts is “constitutional carry,” which generally means allowing legally eligible firearms-owners to carry in public concealed or unconcealed.